By Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

It has been announced recently that SUSTC student team, Artinx, has been selected to be one of six semi-finalists to participate in the 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Design Contests. This entry was selected from 48 submissions all over the world, which is a new record this year. The team Artinx, formed by three third-year undergraduate students (GAO Zhitao , ZHAO Zhengshu, HU Wenxuan ) and one research assistant (GUO Tongfeng ), was supervised by Prof. ZHANG Qingfeng and Prof. CHEN Yifan .

The design contest of this year is to build a power-scavenging device that can harvest and convert ambient radio-frequency emissions into useful DC power. Artinx proposed a novel RF system based on a reconfigurable dipole antenna, which covers most of the commercial frequency bands, e.g. 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, GPS and so on. It will find wide applications in Internet of Things and Intelligent Housing in the near future. This proposal was selected to be one of six entries after the review by IEEE AP-S Education Committee. Artinx was also invited to attend the IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in Puerto Rico (June 26 – July 1, 2016) to present their designs. It will receive an additional $2,500 USD to subsidize the cost of attending the Symposium. 

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society is the biggest organization in antennas and electromagnetics. Its student design contest is the highest-level international contest for undergraduate students. It announces the design topic every September. All the proposals including preliminary validation should be submitted within two months. The selected six teams in the semi-finalists should submit the final design before the end of March, 2016. Only three teams will be selected and awarded in IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in Puerto Rico (June 26 – July 1, 2016). The former winners include some teams from Purdue University, Texas A&M University, Nanyang Technological University and so on.